Roberta Silman
This is the work of an extremely talented writer whose prose is spare and exact and has an authenticity that marks him as the real thing.
Read MoreReading William Trevor will enrich you in ways you cannot imagine.
Read MoreTwo books — one nonfiction, the other fiction — that deal with Jewish history.
Read MoreA splendid, absorbing read in which you feel as if you’ve been dropped onto the set of a Mozart opera.
Read MoreFrances Wilson’s biography of Thomas De Quincey is superb, written with enormous empathy and insight.
Read MoreThis is a book about “survivor’s guilt,” and also about the terrible loneliness that comes of losing so many whom you love.
Read MoreKent Haruf’s novels remind us that even in the hardest lives, there is joy, often delicate and evanescent, but joy, nevertheless.
Read MoreThis canny writer is concerned with the kind of complicated family relationships that engaged his Jewish literary forebears.
Read MoreYou may have read similar earlier works, but Dominic Smith’s novel is in a class of its own.
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Music Commentary: The 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute
If any of you are harboring a budding young musician, investigate the possibility of he or she attending BUTI.
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